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Agency in educational robotics settings: a new design approach

Agency in educational robotics settings: a new design approach. Ilkka Jormanainen ilkka.jormanainen@cs.joensuu.fi Department of Computer Science University of Joensuu, Finland 30.3.2006. In this presentation…. Background Introduction to educational robotics

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Agency in educational robotics settings: a new design approach

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  1. Agency in educational robotics settings: a new design approach Ilkka Jormanainen ilkka.jormanainen@cs.joensuu.fi Department of Computer Science University of Joensuu, Finland 30.3.2006

  2. In this presentation… • Background • Introduction to educational robotics • A new design approach for educational robotics settings • Agency in the domain • Empirical Modelling (EM) • EM approach for designing learning settings

  3. Educational robotics • Small-scale robotic kits • Interactive, autonomous artefacts for learning and teaching • Relatively cheap price • Example: Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System • Developed at mid-1980’s at MIT • Widely used in different educational contexts

  4. Educational robotics • Pedagogical background • Constructionism • Learning by doing (and playing) • Project-based working • Group-oriented working methods • Examples of usage • Kids’ Club, special education • Distributed systems, networking, embedded systems

  5. Educational robotics • Teaching with educational robotics • Groups of 3-4 student • A given topic or project • Project-based working • Iterative cycle of planning, building, programming, testing and evaluating

  6. Problems • Several problems can be indicated • Settings do not fit to curricula very well • Teacher might have difficulties to follow all groups • Teachers have to have special knowledge • Technical skills • Engineering and programming

  7. Empirical Modelling • Characteristics of a model is described with three key concepts: • Observable • Dependency • Agent • Model is a pattern of these • Usage of the models by set of definitions • state-as-experience • Analogy to spreadsheet

  8. Our approach • Pedagogical agents embodied to the educational robotics • Empirical Modelling • Pedagogical and technical design environments with EM tools • Result: agent-enhanced simulation of the learning setting

  9. Interaction Student group Teacher Agents’ actions Modelling process Working process Our approach

  10. Conclusions • Efficient usage of educational robotics requires new kind of teaching settings • EM could help to model and follow the process when using robotics • The work is in the initial phase • Frameworks for the work • Collaboration between universities at Joensuu, Massey and Warwick (UK)

  11. Thank you! Questions? Comments?

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